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Only if you get your knowledge of WWII from Holywood movies.

IIRC, the first work and captured Enigma machines were by the Poles in 1939. (Looking at Wikipedia - apparantly 1932 - they gave the results to Britain in
'39)

The Naval capture of a U-boat was the U-110 , captured by the Royal Navy in May 1941. You're confusing the film U-571 with real history. According to
Wikipedia the US Navy did capture an Enigma machine in 1944, by which time we were already routinely reading their traffic.

"It ain't what you don't know that trips you up, it's what you think you know that ain't so."
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Today's Weird News Item - by Bob Schroeck - 09-17-2009, 01:49 PM
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